Sunday: Siberia’s Photoshop works for contests; Rapture Ready has a fan-mail section including negative mails ; A visitor from www.PsiPog.net who discussed Psi-Balls, ESP, and Telepathy but got frustrated by the returned skepticism. Also: an interesting ghost story that included (differing) opinions from (independently consulted) Catholic priests who expressed concern regarding the ghostly phenomenon. Unusually strong disagreement on the origins and nature of ghostly phenomena. A more comprehensive summary can be found here.

Wednesday: Wednesday’s chat free-for-all went everywhere, as usual. The discussion started of with food (eggrolls) and drink (wine), and then, in a fasinating display of power, Cuneiformist managed to ban himself. Also: debating YECers; mind-reading your pet cat; grieving; the debate over Islam; psychic hucksters; and Ricky’s long night. Unfortunately, by the time Dr. Mabuse made it home from work, the chat was over. Next week, we’ll try and stay up a little later!

“American today seems swamped by a rising tide of Christian Fundamentalism; images of its excesses are all over television, from the blatant “give me your money” shows to the news reports of Fundamentalist intolerance turned violent. Most sensible people (including most of ‘mainstream’ Christian communities) are aghast at this trend and wonder how this new fanaticism could develop within ‘the land of the free.’ One True Doctrine addresses some of the root causes of the Fundamentalist blight as it looks at the development of Christianity from a perspective outside of Biblical tradition (both authors are from the Wiccan tradition).”

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